Friday, November 9, 2007

In-Progress At Phoenix: NASCAR Live And Busch Qualifying

While the ESPN guys play a lot of college football, SPEED will step-in and handle the Busch Series qualifying on Saturday at Phoenix.

SPEED will have a one hour version of NASCAR Live at 11AM Eastern Time. Hosted by John Roberts, this program has used Randy Pemberton and Hermie Sadler as reporters.

At Noon Eastern Time, SPEED will present the Busch Series qualifying which is scheduled for one hour and thirty minutes. Steve Byrnes, Jeff Hammond and Larry McReynolds will handle the commentary. Pit reporters should be Wendy Venturini and Bob Dillner.

Wrapping-up the NASCAR day for SPEED will be a final thirty minute version of NASCAR Live which will lead the network up to their scheduled "off time" of 2PM.

This is another interesting TV day in "NASCAR land," with SPEED handling qualifying and then ESPN2 showing the race for the Busch Series at Phoenix. No other sport has this type of multi-network on-air dynamic.

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17 comments:

Busch Series Fan!
said...

I think Randy Pemberton and Hermie Sadler do a nice job reporting from the track on this Saturday show and John Roberts is a great host. I thought it was so funny what Hermie said about Jeff Gordon having to get on the stick if he wants to win the championship. Let's hope Speed can do a good job of Busch qualifying since Edwards is first we got to see many commercials before Carl goes out.

Once again, I want to send out a “Thank You” to Steve Byrnes for his efforts to avoid using the term “provisional pole” during qualifying. I appreciate the effort involved. JD has posted that Steve reads our comments and he understood my earlier posts.

I feel that I should “splain” my viewpoint on this matter.As a lifelong NASCAR fan, I consider myself a “veteran fan”. In fact, I attended my first NASCAR race before I was born (think about it :) ).

Every sport has its own history and language. Every racing series has its own history and language. I have attended or viewed almost every type of motorsport event. I have tried to respect each series’ history and language. I consider the language of any sport an integral part of its history. As with other sports, the language of NASCAR evolved over time and being technically correct was not a considering factor.

When the language of a sport is polluted and diluted, it takes away from the individuality and history of that sport. When a phrase or term from another series replaces a phrase or term of NASCAR, that is taking away a piece of our history.

When a person earns their paycheck covering NASCAR and doesn’t use the language of NASCAR, it shows laziness, ignorance, or lack of respect. Take your pick.

JD, let me see if I understand this correctly. Nascar doesn't want a tivo'd cup qualifying to over lap with the start of a truck race (or what ever) which could happen if the race was scheduled to start right after cup qualifying finishes. In other words Nascar doesn't want Nascar compeating with itself when cars are on the track. Is this why we get a taped Happy Hour from ESPN at midnight?